Pay Yourself First: The High Beta / No-Load Way to Stock Market Profits

Originally published under the title "Money: How to Get It, Keep It, and Make It Grow". [rear cover blurb:] Are you tired of living from paycheck to paycheck? Are you interested in finan- cial independence and the freedom that goes with it? If you are, the time to get started is right now, especially since this system involves no significant seed money or start-up costs. PAY YOURSELF FIRST shows you don't have to be loaded with money to begin this program. Financial advisor Michael Hayes gives the new investor a systematic, realistic, time-tested plan for accumulating $20,000 or more by investing as little as $3 a day in the right place at the right time. Starting with the basics of financial planning, Hayes explores the risks and rewards of popular investment media and concludes that the investor of moderate means has only one real alternative--the stock market. He then develops the details of a workable approach for accumu- lating the first $20,000, protecting it, and making it compound fast by carefully timed trading in high-volatility, no-load mutual funds. What you'll get includes: \* an analysis of traditional approaches to common stock investment; \* details of an improved method of deciding the crucial times to buy and sell; \* a step-by-step program for turning $1,000 into $30,000 with monthly investments of only $100. Pay Yourself First - Front Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 2 Dedication and Printer's Imprint......Page 3 Acknowledgments......Page 4 Preface......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 1. Money. If You Want It, If You Need It, You Can Get It......Page 10 2. What's the Payoff?......Page 21 3. Making Your Money Work Hard......Page 41 4. Money, More Money, and Even More Money!......Page 56 5. Sure-Fire Losers......Page 73 6. Two Potential Winners......Page 92 7. Why a Mutual Fund?......Page 105 8. How to Get It and Keep It Without Even Trying......Page 120 9. How to Get More and Keep More--with a Little Effort......Page 135 10. What Price Should You Pay for Value?......Page 151 11. Pick a Fund That Swings......Page 177 12. Does It Work?......Page 188 13. Wrap-Up......Page 212 Index......Page 219 AMACOM Executive Books--Paperbacks......Page 224 Rear Cover......Page 226